Dress-shield.



No. 887,454. PATENTED MAY 12, 1908.

D. BASOH. DRESS SHIELD.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 3, 1907- INVENTOR BY 162 ATTOREYS L DAVID BASUH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DRESS-SHIELD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1908.

Application filed October 3, 1907. Serial No. 395,679.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Dxvn) Bason, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resi dent of New York city, county, and State, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress-Shields, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

My invention relates to improvements in dress shields, and consists primarily in the mployment of extensions at the front and rear of the arm flap composed of material impervious to moisture, whereby a dress shield of otherwise ordinary size shall extend to a considerably greater distance upward in the front and rear of the junction between the arm and body of the wearer when the shield is being worn, so as to protect the garment worn over it in parts hitherto not so protected by the ordinary form of dress shield; and my invention consists further in the provision of stiffening means employed for the purpose of keeping the said extensions properly distended, and in a novel method of securing the said extensions to the arm flaps, wherein the provision is also made for inclosing certain of the stiffening strips.

In order that my invention may be fully understood I will now proceed to describe a dress shield embodying the invention, having reference to the accompanying drawings illustrating the same, and will then point out the novel features in a claim.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a view showing dress shields constructed in accordance with my invention in position upon the wearer. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of one of the dress shields. Fig. 3 is a detail View of a portion of the dress shield showing the same in process of construction. Fig. 4 is another detail view of a portion of the dress shield including one of the extensions, cer tain parts being broken away in order to show the method of attaching the extension to the arm flap, and also to show certain stiffening elements employed.

The dress shield comprises in the main the ordinary body flap A and arm flap B, said arm and body flaps being composed of, or including, material impervious to moisture, as is usual. The arm flap B is provided With two extensions C C securely connected thereto at front and rear in proximity to the point of junction of the arm flap with the body flap, a shoulder strap D preferably adjustable as to length being connected to the extremities of said arm flap extensions. These arm flap extensions are composed of, or include, material impervious to moisture, so that they form a continuing portion of the dress shield, whereby the front and back of the garment will be protected to a distance considerably above the points where a dress shield usually terminates. Being connected to the arm flap along the outer edges thereof and also to the shoulder strap, the said arm flap and the extensions will both be raised as the arm of the wearer is raised, as is clearly illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The arm flap and its extensions will thus be always kept in their proper positions with respect to the wearer, and a more thorough and complete protection will result than has heretofore been possible. For the purpose of keeping the extensions properly distended, and to prevent their becoming unduly creased or folded when the arm is close to the side, I have provided suitable stiffening pieces, one such stiffening piece F being preferably provided across the extension intermediate its ends, and the other stiffening piece E being preferably provided at the point of junction between the extension and the arm flap. The said extensions may conveniently be secured to the arm flap, and a pocket provided for the last said stiffening piece E by laying the extension backwards upon the arm flap, as is shown in Fig. 3, and sewing it thereto by means of the line of sewing G, which is also employed for sewing on the usual binding piece H, in then laying the strip E along the edge of the arm flap, and finally in folding the arm flap over the said stiffening piece E and sewing it down by means of a line of sewing I, as is shown in Fig. 4. The stiffening pieces may be of any suitable material such as celluloid, fiber, vulcanite, whale-bone, metal or the like, and may be located in any part of the extension as may be found necessary or desirable.

hat I claim is:

p A dress shield comprising substantially crescent shaped arm and body flaps, united along their concave edges, extension pieces secured to the edges of the arm flaps at the front and rear thereof, in proximity to the point of juncture between the arm and body flaps, each of the said extension pieces being so secured by two parallel lines of stitching, necting the free ends of the extension pieces whereby a pocket is formed between the together, the said extension pieces composed extension piece and the arm flap ior.the of material impervious to moisture. reception of a stiffening piece, a stifiening DAVID BASCH. piece in each of the two pockets so formed, Witnesses:

other stiffening pieces, arranged across the D. HOWARD HAYWOOD,

extension pieces, and a shoulder strap con- LYMAN S. ANDREWS, Jr. 

